He was born and grew up in Hong Kong. He was converted to Christianity when he was 14. He studied ElectricalEngineering in the University of Hong Kong, and had been a high school physics and mathematics teacher. Duringhis university days, he was drawn into an agonized reflection on the purpose of life and other ultimate questions. Hebecame critical of his own faith, and almost lost it. Finally, he kept his faith and decided to devote his life to anexploration of religion and philosophy.In 1989, he got a Bachelor of Divinity (First Class) from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. In 1991 and 1993,he was awarded a M. Phil. in Philosophical Theology and a D. Phil. respectively by the University of Oxford. Hefinished his PhD thesis under the supervision of Professor Richard Swinburne, one of the foremost contemporaryanalytic philosophers of religion.Shortly after, he returned to Hong Kong. He had taught theology in the Theology Division, Chinese University ofHong Kong. Now he is an Associate professor in the Department of Religion and Philosophy in the Hong KongBaptist University. He has published articles in journals like Faith and Philosophy, Philosophia Christi andPhilosophy Compass, and in the Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2nd edition). He has also published numerous Chinesearticles in a wide range of areas: philosophy of science, philosophy of science, systematic theology, science-religiondialogue, social ethics and so on. He is the author of several Chinese books which include I Believe, Therefore IThink, God, Secular Society and the Foundation of Ethics, Christian Ethics and the Liberal Society. Books edited byhim include Postmodern Culture and Christianity, and Christian Values and the Humanistic Spirit.

Si-yi HAN

China

He received a M.Phil. (Chinese Ancient Philosophy) from Lanzhou University in 1995. From July 1995 toDecember 2005, he has served as a lecturer in the China University of Political Science and Law Subjects taughtinclude Applied Ethics, Ancient Chinese Social Thought, and Religion. He is now a Ph.D. Candidate (Christianityand Chinese Culture) in the Hong Kong Baptist University. He is a co-editor of An Expository Collection of theChristian and the Anti-Christian Manuscripts and Texts in Ming-Qing China, 5 volumes (Beijing: ReligiousGraduate School of University of Peking, 2003).